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> The selling point of PDFs is “word” documents that get correctly displayed everywhere If only we had some type of Portable Document Format, that would be cor
by dotancohen 1y ago
> The selling point of PDFs is “word” documents that get correctly displayed everywhere
If only we had some type of Portable Document Format, that would be correctly displayed _and parsable_ everywhere.
I do believe that PDF/A (Archiveable) and PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) do get us there. LibreOffice can export a file as a PDF that supports PDF/A, PDF/UA, and has the original .odt file embedded in it for future archiving. It is an absolutely amazing file format - native readable, parsable, accessible PDF with the source wrapped up. The file sizes are larger, but that's hardly a tradeoff unless one is emailing the files.